[mrmistoffelees]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I understand the options, jfman. I also understand all the jobs that will be put at risk if this and other measures restricting business are allowed to continue.

Testing is only a viable tool if it is reliable, and if you are honest, you will acknowledge that they are not. Seriously ill people with coronavirus have tested negative a few times before being tested positive. The anti-body method is also deemed unreliable. So it is senseless to establish containment policies on the back of tests that don't work properly. You will end up sending infected people back into the workplace and you will assume people have immunity when they don't. I think that's called 'clutching at straws'.

Yes, working at home is a definite plus, but the majority of the population do not have that as an option. Public transport will still be too crowded to enable social distancing to take place.

I don't know how you can, with any credibility, describe my comments as 'hysterical'. I am simply pointing out the futility of what you are advocating. If only it were that easy.

You are basically agreeing to sacrifice peoples lives to protect the capitalist market. That's not hysterical. In my opinion it's lunacy.